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by hot_gril 1252 days ago
In the Definitive Edition, there has been observed cheating in online ranked mode where players give themselves infinite resources. Evidently there's a way to do that without going OoS. This was probably the same in the original. This is besides the less complex cheat, removing fog of war. Seems the only thing stopping most people from cheating is, they don't want to.

Also, I used to play the Mac version a lot. It was great! Shame they made the remakes Windows-only.
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alternatetwo 1252 days ago
You can call the command creation functions yourself, making the game think it's part of the simulation [1]. These types of cheat have been around ever since the original game, and the HD edition [2].

[1]: https://redrocket.club/posts/age_of_empires/ [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tl8AjDfnBk

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hot_gril 1251 days ago
I was thinking of reverse-engineering the game's calls out of curiosity, but I figured someone else already did it and wrote a nice article about it... and there it is.
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brnt 1251 days ago
> Shame they made the remakes Windows-only.

They run brilliantly through Steam on Linux, fwiw.

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hot_gril 1250 days ago
Sorta. You have to mess with the DLLs and Proton settings to make multiplayer work, and even then it's laggy. It also works in Wine on Mac in some cases, but for me it always had problems.
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brnt 1249 days ago
Never had to mess with anything for multiplayer AoE (or any other so far). That was in the before times, remember transgaming?
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